本展為北美館與法國中央地區當代藝術基金會(簡稱Frac Centre)共同策劃的展覽，主要是探討1945年後以研究為取向的建築案例所發展出的烏托邦式的、實驗的建築形式。展出內容集結法國Frac Centre的建築典藏精品，選出48位建築師、藝術家共200餘件建築計畫，藉由二次世界大戰後至今前衛又震撼人心的建築設計與都市規劃，重新審查1950年代城市烏托邦的概念，分析1980年代解構主義的作品，闡述1990年代新進科技對建築的影響，進而反思當今前衛建築對未來的建構。
This exhibition, which brings together more than 200 drawings and models from among the FRAC Centre’s most emblematic projects, offers a broad overview of architectural and urban experimentation, from the 1950s to now. The FRAC Centre collection encompasses projects that symbolize radical architecture from the 1960s to the very latest such work. Its extensive field of reference and its forward-looking dimension make it something of a treasure-trove of ideas about tomorrow's architecture, a place of open-ended reflection, which permanently questions and challenges architectural design procedures in ways that are both creative and critical. The FRAC Centre collection includes works by artists working in liaison with architecture and architects' projects; hence, emphasis has, from its earliest days, always been placed on the common aesthetic field likely to be shared by artists and architects.